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PROCESS OF RULING TISSUE PAPER.

No. 358,745. 7 Patented Mar. 1, 1887 r chine.

' Unite STATES- ATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES G. vMORTIMER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y

PROCESS OF RULING TISSUE-PAPER.

S PECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,745, dated March 1, 1887.

Application filed April 30, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES G. MORTIMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvernentsin the Process of Ruling Tissue-Paper, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in ruling paper; and it has for its objects to provide for ruling the light papers such as tissue-paperwhich cannot be properly carried through and ruled upon the ordinary ruling ma-chines on account of its liability to crimp or gather under the pens, thus causing irregular or imperfect lines.

The invention further has for its objects to so rule the paper that the lines as they are drawn may strike through the substance of the paper, so as to present both surfaces of the finished sheet alike, and, further, to rule the paper in a continuous sheet as it is delivered from the paper-making machine, as more fully hereinafter specified.

The accompanying drawing represents a diagram, showing the course of the paper as it passes from the paper making machine through the various stages necessary to properly rule it to the finaljcompleted roll.

The paper is drawn directly, under tension, from the web or blanket over a roller or mandrel, A, and from thence over a felt-covered roller, B, which revolves in a trough, 0, containing a solution of saccharine matter and OX- gall, by. which it is moistened, so as to put it in proper condition to receive the ink. From the said roller it passes under a brush-roller, E, having its periphery armed with bristles and traveling in a direction opposite to the line of travel of the paper, as indicated by arrows in the drawing. The office of this roller is to smooth out the wrinkles from the paper caused by the moistening operation before mentioned. From the said roller the paper passes to a drying-roller, F, and, on its way to the same, below the rulingpens G, which are supported and supplied with ink in the same manner as in an ordinary paper-ruling ma- The paper as thus moistened and prepared receives the ink-lines while in such con- Serial No. 200,690. (No model.)

dition that the same may strike through its body. The drying-roller is suitably heated, preferably by means of steam, so as to dry the ink as soon as deposited from the pens, and thus preventit from spreading and blurring the lines. From the drying-roller the paper passes between the calendering-rollers H, one of which is suitably heated, so as to finally dry and surface the paper. The paper is finally wound upon a drum, I, which serves not only to roll and store it, but to'draw it and keep it at the proper tension under the pens, so as to receive the lines properly, the travel of the web or blanket being so regulated with respect to the rate of rotation of the drumI that the sheet will always be taut or stretched when passing under the pens.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The method herein described of ruling paper, the same consisting in first moistening the paper with a suitable solution and then applying the lines, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The method herein described of ruling tissue-paper, the same consisting in drawing the paper under tension in a continuous sheet and winding it upon the drum by which it is drawn, and while in such stretched condition first moistening it with a suitable solution and then applying the lines, substantially as herein set forth.

3. The method herein described of ruling paper, the same consisting in first moistening the paper with a suitablesolution,thensmoothing it to remove crimps and wrinkles, and then applying the ink, substantially as herein described.

4. The method herein described of ruling paper, the same consisting in first moistening the paper with asolution of ox-gall and saccharine matter and then applying the lines, substantially as herein set fortln 5. The method of rulingpaper herein described, the same consisting in first moistening it with a suitable solution, then applying the lines, and then immediately drying the ink, so as to prevent blurring, substantially as herein specified.

6. The method of ruling paper herein de scribed, the same consisting in first moistening ing the ink, then drying the same, and finally 10 it with a suitable solution, then smoothing it calendering the sheet and winding it into a to remove Wrinkles, then applying the lines, continuous roll, substantially as specified.

and then immediately drying the ink, sub- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in stantially as described. presence of two witnesses.

7. The method of ruling paper herein de- CHARLES G. MORTIMER. scribed, the same consisting in first moisten- Witnesses:

ing it With asuitable solution, then smoothing W. M. ANDRUS,

it to remove crimps or wrinkles, then apply- GEORGE E. BISHOP. 

